Vietnam War

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress

• The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress

• authorized President Johnson to take any measure needed to repel attacks on U. S. forces.

• called for both U. S. and North Vietnamese forces to withdraw from South Vietnam.

• condemned U. S. aggression against the people of Vietnam.

The Pentagon Papers revealed that

• many more Americans had died in Vietnam than had been reported.

• American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons.

• American soldiers had massacred Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.

• the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam.

The phrase "credibility gap" was coined to describe

• the public's frustration with the lack of media coverage in Vietnam

• the difference in Johnson’s and Nixon’s policies in Vietnam

• the difference between what the Johnson administration claimed and what the public believed was true

• the public’s frustration with the growing protest and counterculture movement

In 1970 what college protested the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and resulted in the deaths of 4 college students?

• UC Berkley

• UCLA

• University of Wisconsin

• Kent State

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

• Vietnamization 
• Communism
• Domino Theory
• Imperialism

Vietnam was a colony of what prior to WWll?

• United States
• China
• France
• Japan

What provided congressional support for escalating military action in Vietnam? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Battle Of Midway
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 
• Bay of Pigs Invasion

What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?

• The Geneva Accords
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• The Tet Offensive
• Gulf of Tonkin

Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

• Vietminization
• Vietcong
• Internationalism
• Linkage

Limits the power of the President during a time of conflict

• Voting Rights Act
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• War Powers Act